Political economy
Study of the development of social production
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| April 2024 | Žižek criticized Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. |
| 2023 | In a piece for Compact Magazine, Žižek took a strong stance against access to puberty blockers for trans youth and criticized the placement of trans adults in prisons matching their gender, linking his arguments to what he described as 'wokeness.' |
| 2023 | Co-authored a research paper on 'Working with convex responses: Antifragility from finance to oncology' published in the journal Entropy |
| 2022 | In an opinion article for The Guardian, Žižek argued for full support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion and called for a stronger NATO in response to Russian aggression. |
| 2022 | Žižek showed his support for the Slovenian political party Levica (The Left) during its 5th annual conference. |
| 2022 | In his book 'Heaven in Disorder', Žižek reiterated his preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, criticizing Trump for corroding the ethical substance of life while portraying Biden as a more genteel representative of big capital. |
| 2022 | Publicly supported an aggressive response against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and denounced 'naive libertarians' who assumed he shared their political views. |
| 2021 | The film 'Bliss' was released. |
| 2020 | Žižek revealed that he was reconsidering his views on Trump, stating 'Trump is a little too much' and indicating a shift in preference towards Joe Biden. |
| January 26 2020 | Published a note on 'Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus' on Academia.edu, providing early insights into pandemic risks |
| January 26 2020 | Co-authored a scientific paper with Yaneer Bar-Yam and Joseph Norman about systemic risk of pandemics, specifically warning about the potential serious impact of SARS-CoV-2 which was not being taken seriously enough by policy makers and medical professionals. |
| 2019 | In a 2019 article, Žižek highlighted Marx's view that the market economy uniquely combines political and personal freedom with social unfreedom. |
| 2019 | In the article 'Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud', Žižek explored the tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and biological determinism, proposing a 'Freudian solution' to this ideological deadlock. |
| 2019 | Žižek began hosting a mini-series titled 'How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek' on the RT network. |
| 2019 | In 2019, Slavoj Žižek asserted that 'For me, in some sense, all of philosophy happened in [the] fifty years' between Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831). |
| 2019 | Žižek co-signed a petition condemning the use of disproportionate force by the Hong Kong Police against students during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, advocating for academic freedom and the safety of students. |
| 2019 | Žižek defended his support for Trump, arguing that the election 'created a true American left' by energizing figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. |
| 2019 | Published an article 'Medicine and Risk Transfer' in the Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting |
| 2019 |
Claus Peter Ortlieb
Published 'Zur Kritik des modernen Fetischismus' (Critique of Modern Fetishism), a collection of texts from 1997-2015, through Schmetterling Verlag in Stuttgart.
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| September 15 2019 |
Claus Peter Ortlieb
Passed away in Hamburg at the age of 72.
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| September 15 2019 |
Claus Peter Ortlieb
Passed away
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| August 2019 | Added the fifth book to the Incerto collection, completing the philosophical essay on uncertainty. |
| July 2019 | Released Incerto (Deluxe Edition), which includes all five books in the philosophical series. |
| April 2019 | Žižek debated psychology professor Jordan Peterson at the Sony Centre in Toronto, Canada, discussing happiness under capitalism versus Marxism. |
| 2018 | The short film 'Turn On' was released. |
| 2018 | Received the Wolfram Innovator Award for his contributions to decision making under complicated and less-idealized probabilistic structures using Mathematica. |
| March 9 2018 | During a lecture on political revolutions in London, Žižek discussed his experience with Bell's palsy and used it as a metaphor for political idleness. |
| February 2018 | Published 'Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life'. |
| 2017 | Žižek expressed that one could not choose between Macron and Le Pen in the context of the upcoming French presidential election, arguing that Macron's neoliberalism contributes to the rise of neofascism. |
| 2016 | The film 'Risk' was released. |
| 2016 | The film 'Houston, We Have a Problem!' was released. |
| 2016 | Žižek published 'The Sexual Is Political', where he argued that all subjects, including transgender subjects, are in conflict with the sexual positions assigned to them, advocating for a 'GENERAL GENDER' bathroom as a solution. |
| 2016 | Žižek became a member of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), which was founded in 2016. |
| 2016 | In an interview with Channel 4, Žižek stated that if he were American, he would vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election, a stance that was criticized by various commentators. |
| 2016 | Delivered the commencement speech at the American University of Beirut, sharing insights with graduating students. |
| November 2016 | Original publication of Incerto, his five-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty, initially including four books. |
| 2015 | Again named among the most influential 100 thought leaders in the world by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. |
| 2014 | Žižek was accused of self-plagiarism by The New York Times after he published an op-ed that contained portions of his earlier writings. |
| 2014 | Žižek rejected the 'pseudo-Marxist' total derision of 'formal freedom', asserting its importance for critique, stating that awareness of limitations in freedom arises only when one is formally free. |
| 2014 | Continued to be recognized as one of the most influential 100 thought leaders in the world by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. |
| September 2014 | Became Co-Editor in Chief of the academic journal Risk and Decision Analysis. |
| July 2014 | Newsweek reported that in July 2014, bloggers led by Steve Sailer discovered that Žižek had plagiarized long passages from a 2006 article, copying from a review by Stanley Hornbeck published in a journal associated with white nationalism. |
| 2013 | Slavoj Žižek corresponded with imprisoned Russian activist and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. |
| 2013 | The film 'Balkan Spirit' was released. |
| 2013 | Concluded his role as Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Oxford. |
| 2013 | First recognized as one of the most influential 100 thought leaders in the world by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. |
| 2013 |
Claus Peter Ortlieb
Published second edition of 'Mathematische Modellierung' (Mathematical Modeling), a collaborative work with Caroline v. Dresky, Ingenuin Gasser, and Silke Günzel through Springer Spektrum.
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| May 2013 | During the Subversive Festival, Žižek commented that those who do not support SYRIZA would receive from him a 'first-class one-way ticket to a gulag', leading to controversy and claims from the center-right New Democracy party that his remarks should be taken literally. |
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